Thriller Movies

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)
IMDb: N/A
89

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Donovan’s Brain (1953)

Donovan’s Brain (1953)

Donovan’s Brain (1953)
IMDb: N/A
83

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic…

Inferno (1953)

Inferno (1953)

Inferno (1953)
IMDb: N/A
83

When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two…

Second Chance (1953)

Second Chance (1953)

Second Chance (1953)
IMDb: N/A
82

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Pickup on South Street (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)
IMDb: N/A
80

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

Man on a Tightrope (1953)
IMDb: N/A
105

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cry of the Hunted (1953)

Cry of the Hunted (1953)

Cry of the Hunted (1953)
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80

A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Split Second (1953)

Split Second (1953)

Split Second (1953)
IMDb: N/A
85

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Wages of Fear (1953)

The Wages of Fear (1953)

The Wages of Fear (1953)
IMDb: N/A
153

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop…

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Man in the Dark (1953)

Man in the Dark (1953)

Man in the Dark (1953)
IMDb: N/A
70

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Stolen Identity (1953)

Stolen Identity (1953)

Stolen Identity (1953)
IMDb: N/A
88

A jealous musician kills his wife and frames a cab driver.

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Strange Harvest (1953)

Strange Harvest (1953)

Strange Harvest (1953)
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30

A sailor on leave gives a lift to two men who steal his money and car, leaving him for dead in a cornfield, which they don’t know is to be…

Genre: Thriller
Fear and Desire (1953)

Fear and Desire (1953)

Fear and Desire (1953)
IMDb: N/A
62

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
IMDb: N/A
71

Roy and Gilbert’s fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He’s killed before,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jeopardy (1953)

Jeopardy (1953)

Jeopardy (1953)
IMDb: N/A
69

A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Never Let Me Go (1953)

Never Let Me Go (1953)

Never Let Me Go (1953)
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94

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

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I Confess (1953)

I Confess (1953)

I Confess (1953)
IMDb: N/A
95

Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Yellow Balloon (1953)

The Yellow Balloon (1953)

The Yellow Balloon (1953)
IMDb: N/A
76

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend’s death.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Time Bomb (1953)

Time Bomb (1953)

Time Bomb (1953)
IMDb: N/A
73

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has…

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Genre: Thriller
Niagara (1953)

Niagara (1953)

Niagara (1953)
IMDb: N/A
92

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area….

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Long Memory (1953)

The Long Memory (1953)

The Long Memory (1953)
IMDb: N/A
96

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Gambler and the Lady (1952)

The Gambler and the Lady (1952)

The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
IMDb: N/A
72

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)

Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)

Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
IMDb: N/A
70

Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson’s diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his…

Escape Route (1952)

Escape Route (1952)

Escape Route (1952)
IMDb: N/A
78

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Desperate Search (1952)

Desperate Search (1952)

Desperate Search (1952)
IMDb: N/A
73

A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.

The Steel Trap (1952)

The Steel Trap (1952)

The Steel Trap (1952)
IMDb: N/A
85

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Gentle Gunman (1952)

The Gentle Gunman (1952)

The Gentle Gunman (1952)
IMDb: N/A
86

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Thief (1952)

The Thief (1952)

The Thief (1952)
IMDb: N/A
85

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who’s selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Venetian Bird (1952)

Venetian Bird (1952)

Venetian Bird (1952)
IMDb: N/A
94

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Ghost Ship (1952)

Ghost Ship (1952)

Ghost Ship (1952)
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75

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.

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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Assignment: Paris (1952)

Assignment: Paris (1952)

Assignment: Paris (1952)
IMDb: N/A
85

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Park Row (1952)

Park Row (1952)

Park Row (1952)
IMDb: N/A
83

In New York’s 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger…

Big Jim McLain (1952)

Big Jim McLain (1952)

Big Jim McLain (1952)
IMDb: N/A
90

House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the…

Beware My Lovely (1952)

Beware My Lovely (1952)

Beware My Lovely (1952)
IMDb: N/A
77

A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Sudden Fear (1952)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Sudden Fear (1952)
IMDb: N/A
112

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a romantic leading man. On…

Genre: Thriller
Crow Hollow (1952)

Crow Hollow (1952)

Crow Hollow (1952)
IMDb: N/A
69

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew’s bride in a dark mansion.

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Genre: Thriller
Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Affair in Trinidad (1952)

Affair in Trinidad (1952)
IMDb: N/A
98

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
IMDb: N/A
76

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Diplomatic Courier (1952)
IMDb: N/A
97

During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact…

The Beast Must Die (1952)

The Beast Must Die (1952)

The Beast Must Die (1952)
IMDb: N/A
104

A crime writer searching for the truth about a personal tragedy becomes involved in a murder investigation.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller